D&D Players, What are your coolest character concepts?

[@definitelyacabbagefarmer5996]

A bard who can only speak through his instrument. He plays a violin, but his voice plays instead of strings, and when he sings it’s a lovely violin chord

[@theredstonereed3274]

Bro this is near identical to a character I made and haven't been able to use

[@definitelyacabbagefarmer5996]

Heh- I was going to use him in tomb of Annihilation in a couple of years.

[@Nobody-hr4gt]

Reminds me of that one video where that happens

[@kylemoss7941]

What, like that 1 vine with the guitar, but with a violin.

[@Nobody-hr4gt]

@@kylemoss7941 yeah that lol

[@o.d.d.792]

A tiefling monk following the way of mercy. Scarred by his past misdeeds, as a result he was captured and burned alive and his body thrown into the ocean. He was still alive and because he was a tiefling, the burning was slow and painful. Survived thanks to the kindness of a tiefling doctor, my character realized everything that happened to him was his own fault and realized he needed to change after a month of self-reflection. Wrapped in bandages and constantly changing them every 3-4 days. He walks redeemed and desires to help and not harm people. Gained a reputation as the demon dressed in light for not only the white bandages wrapped around his entire body, but he describes himself as a light born from darkness.

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

Sounds like he doesn't expect God to do all the work

[@chucknorris3547]

At least he wasn't thrown down the Hoover Dam...

[@franconunez925]

@@alexanderthegreat6682 "welp, Satan only wanted to help humanity and I'm just following his foot-steps" Now really, this is a neat concept and also, it may be inspired by Joshua(or the burnt man, I don't know if I got the name correctly) from Fallout NV?

[@bruhmana5805]

@@franconunez925 Shouldn't have expected god for you to see this late reply to a 2 month-old comment. But, it's Graham, Joshua Graham.

[@franconunez925]

@@bruhmana5805 thanks, it feels nice getting a name right for once.

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

A plague doctor cleric. They’ll act super edgy and mysterious, but deep down they’re a huge softy that just wants to help people. I’m planning to make them a drow that wishes to atone for the evil deeds they committed while serving the queen of the underdark.

[@SgtTikka]

I have a similar idea. A yuan ty (the more snake like that is not technically a playable race but who cares), way of mercy monk/celestial warlock. He was cursed by a spell that restored his feelings to the level of a normal human, and he could not live in a place that runs on slavery and human sacrifice, so he runs away. He wears a plaque doctor mask to hide his face, because yuan ty are well known to be self serving if not outright evil. He later unknowingly saves the life of a golden great wyrm who has accended to demi-god status, and she returns to thenk him with a gift of some magic to supplement his healing skills. He also fights with a cane, one of those ones with a big metal ball at the end.

[@IAmTheStig32]

Darkest Dungeon?

[@spice_maker]

This charecter just sounds like plauge knight from shovel knight

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

@@spice_maker if I knew who that was, I’d probably agree with you.

[@denovation4924]

I also had a plague doctor cleric idea with a similar idea of why. He used to be a worshiper of one of the lords of the hells and when he broke free and ended up killing the head of the cult, the lord cursed him with an incurable disease. He turned to a god/goddess to ease his pain as it could not be removed and wears a mask full of herbs to soothe his chest. He really only looks like a plague doctor, though.

[@its_sisha_not_chair505]

7:14 i Absolutely LOVE this character idea. He's essetially trying to discover the golden number. A number which is said to be the perfect proportion to everything

[@WolfBoy-om6dw]

The wizard at 7:06 sounds like an awesome character it sucks that the player wasn't able to play him. He sounds like he would fit really well in a mage the Ascension game campaign.

[@Shinobi.0]

Based on how the wizard had a snail familiar and believed that the shell holds the secret to the world. It could be the that the wizard will find out it’s the Fibonacci sequence, the Fibonacci sequence is basically a spiral that’s found all over nature.

[@its_sisha_not_chair505]

@@Shinobi.0 yeaaah i love that concept. I really hope he called that character Fibonacci or something similar

[@curtisgagnon2871]

I had a human cleric that renounced all gods after his temple was burned down. He struggled to find who he was and lost all his power and divine essence. After cursing the gods and never understanding who he was, he decided to become a merchant seaman on board a ship to try to find the gods and himself again. The ship was hit by a freak storm and sunk killing everyone but him. As he sunk down into the icy depths he started praying to any god that would listen. A Great Old One answered. In return for his rescue, the Old God cursed him to become a changeling without a real face. Instead, every time he slept, he would wake up with a new personality, alignment and appearance. I had a sheet for each personality (9. One for each alignment). He was a great old one warlock from that point forward. Really fun character and I learned a lot about roleplay and voice acting with that character. My group loved him.

[@inkyisdreaming]

I’ve wondered about playing an elven bard who, instead of a typical lyre, actually befriended a Mimic and plays that DISGUISED as a lyre. It’s a win for the both of them, after all- The elf has something to fall back on in case they get in trouble, and the Mimic gets to eat whatever gets left in their wake.

[@codex4430]

A Necromancer Wizard who constantly assures everyone around him that he is in fact a doctor and Necromancy is a valid medical practice

[@SpeedyCheetahCub]

Charlie's character from Just Roll With It: Apotheosis was pretty cool. Peter Sqloint is an ordinary guy who became a warlock when he was unwittingly possessed by a biblically accurate archangel during what was essentially the apocalypse. Peter cannot do magic on his own, only the angel takes over is he able to do any magic. Peter has very low self-esteem and is basically a puppet for the angel, so his arc is all about learning to stand up for himself and find his own magic.

[@LordSeraph999]

Me and my father thought of this group of Multiclassing Warlocks called: "The Shadowcast" (Pronounced: Shadow, Cast) All of them were Warlocks but they all had something unique to them. One was a Paladin, they became what could best be described as a combination of every creepypasta ever. He has tenticles, An imp that can take the shape of a Spider or a Bird, and since he's a dark paladin, he also gets demonic powers, like if you attack him he can make you burst into flames. Another was a monk. He could punch you, and you're fate would be sealed. You wouldn't notice, but through the snap of his fingers you drop dead and your heart stops. Oh, and all of them have darkness. And the wizard was just... Holy shit.

[@wonderingpariah8049]

I played a man that got a deck of many things on his deathbed and had his conscious sent to his past self. Instead of a simple collage librarian he became a dual class between fighter and rouge. Basically everything made him feel happy again and he treasured every adventure the party went on. It was a short campaign that ended at level 10, but he had a blast. Happiest character in the party and in the end he acted more like a bard than anything else. I'm using him again for my next campaign, but he'll be a barbarian monk.

[@nullvoid4193]

Hexblade multiclass 3 levels into grave cleric. Uses a shovel that’s haunted by some forgotten god (still workshopping that part), which he is unaware of, all he knows is it’s a shovel that hasn’t broken yet, so why replace it? But every time he either channels divinity, falls unconscious/gets conscious in battle or uses a few other hexblade spells, he just gets possessed by “shovel god” which is a slightly crazy, battle hungry guy while in combat, but the few times he might appear out of combat, he’s a confident, sarcastic, guy who really likes grilled cheese (c’mon, if you were trapped in a shovel for long enough to be completely forgotten about, got out, and someone gave you two slabs of a bread with melted cheese which you’ve never seen or tasted before, you’d think it’s the best thing ever). The guy that “shovel god” possess is a tanjiro type character but dialed to 11, not a baby pacifist but infectiously kind and thinks everyone deserves a second chance.

[@Red_Devil_2011]

7:14 Odd time to discuss characters? No, that's the perfect time. You're either quitly enjoying nature, or chit chatting with your hiking buddy!

[@The_Casualest_of_Chaoses]

Recently I made my first DND character, idk if Its actually good, but essentially, when I made her character sheet online, combined with the rest of the backstory I made for her, I accidentally made a punk rock half elf bard with drow ancestry who managed to piss off both the tyrant king of her human kingdom, and about 95% of the underground drow population. Both of which want her dead. Honestly I love this character.

[@mdalsted]

An ascended deinonychus barbarian, because I love dinosaurs. "Ascended", in this context, means he has the same level of thinking as the average playable race. I'm hoping to playtest his race -- the Ascended Animal (with "Medium Dromaeosaur" being treated as a subrace) -- to make sure it's not imbalanced.

[@sarahcoleman5269]

When I first started playing with my game group, my DM helped me create a character that I thought was pretty cute. A Halfling Cavalier with a Dire Corgi mount. Things happened and... well, by the time we ended that campaign, she was a Royal Knight with a trained War Horse that had the horseshoes of Zephyr and a magic lance that was imbued with the soul of her Dire Corgi that had been killed by a Wizard. I really miss that character.

[@samaamas9729]

I've got two: The legacy paladin and V.A.S.T. Legacy Paladin: The idea is that the character was just some Joe Shmo in a village on the fringes of a country where monster attacks are more common. One day while going about their business, everyone clusters around an outsider that's come to town. Outsiders aren't that uncommon, but this one is covered from head to toe in platemail bedecked in religious script chiseled onto the metal. Everyone is fascinated by this person whom, after asking some questions about the town, goes to see the mayor, saying "He has urgent news that must reach his ears." Soon, a meeting is called; every man strong and willing is to convene to defend the town while everyone else is to flee further in-country. The urgent news was that a Horde of Orcs was coming to sack and pillage and they weren't that far out either. Not being of age, Joe Shmo leaves with the other villagers but decides to sneak away as he wants to see what happens when the orcs comes. The night is long and the battle rough but what they saw that night would inspire them forever. The Plated Warrior suffered a seemingly unwinnable onslaught of enemies while trying to defend the men who stayed behind to help win the fight or atleast buy some time for their families. Blow after blow, kill after kill, the Warrior struck his enemies down till the morning came and their enemy was demolished. When the villagers returned, they found amongst a pile of dead creatures, the Warrior, having suffered enough wounds that, finally, they fell themself. After witnessing such heroism, Joe Shmo trained his entire life in honor of the Warrior, who was laid to rest inside the town hall - their armor becoming a symbol for hope and prosperity. It was deciphered over the years the script, written in Celestial, was a number of different 'sayings' or 'idioms' of a religious nature, all created in different styles of writing as though many different people had taken on the platemail themselves through the ages and developed their own moral codes that shaped the deeds they'd commit in their lifetimes. Joe Shmo decided that he would be next in line to put upon themself the mantle of the armor and the duties the previous Warrior bore; he would travel the lands and defend the people's therein, even if the odds seemed impossible. So, when he came of age and the village elite decided that such a cause was worthy, they asked him to take the title of Paladin and travel the world helping anyone in dire need of a hero. Soon, he too would create and emblazon his own words on the armor and when the time would come, pass the armor to the next bearer of the plate. V.A.S.T. This one was made for Starfinder but I think is still unique enough to post here. Androids are a playable race in Starfinder; Androids being a form of synthetic life that was "birthed" into the universe with actual souls. Many of them started out life as labor, service, or science models in a life of slavery but a time has come for freedom of their peoples where that slavery is becoming abolished by rights activists through the cosmos. Many people don't like this idea and would rather see Androids burn alive than see them turned free. Enter Science Installation: Designation 122-7B - A small moon with a science team of about a thousand strong analyzing data that is passed their way and sending on the findings to their masters. They heard tell that soon they would be turned free and able to do what they want to, not what they've been ordered to. But this would not be the case. An unmarked frigate comes out of drift space and without warning starts an orbital bombardment of the moon. Maybe it was the Androids masters, detesting they'd have to soon free them. Maybe it was because someone caught wind of the data that was being analyzed and didn't want it escaping. Maybe it was space pirates looking to salvage what remained after they destroyed the base. Whatever it was, the story wouldn't end there. A Rights Activist Group who was in close communicay with the Androids discovered the remains of the installation and the empty husk of the Black Box Casing. In an attempt to find out what happened, they attempted a illegitimate and undercover operation they dubbed "Versimilar Agent Seeking Transgressor Protocal" or "Protocal: V.A.S.T." They took every corpse they could find and put them in an automated processing chamber that got to work stripping each and every body of suitable synth-flesh and recombining it all into one body. Bones, muscles, nerves, organs, skin, and grey-matter were repurposed into one body with the intent to try and process the series of events that transpired by getting what they could decipher from this frankenstein's monster reciting what they remembered. Without a suitable name, they called him Vast-473 for the number of bodies that made up his composition.

[@Konpekikaminari]

Bloody Hells These 2 are epic

[@frzlotgaming472]

I absolutely love the Legacy Paladin. My current character is a half orc barb, who defended his sister by killing his entire clan. And after fleeing. Wandered far and wife to be met by wayward paladins, whom he stole a shield from, thinking it'll protect them later down the line. Fast forward, seven years, he is now (in our upcoming session) thinking of returning the shield to said paladins. I was also thinking of turning him into one, as a way of forgiving himself for the murder of his clan.

[@markopucek6400]

I had a dwarf with an afro, he was a totem barbarian, brewing beer all casual, had a pet wolf who sacrificed him self to save the dwarf, wolfs soul was saved in the dwarfs axe so it would always return to him if lost, on the other hand the dwarf would get lost a lot(he grew up in an underground city and did not have a concept of the outside world and everything was new to him) so the party often followed the axe around until they found the lost dwarf, at one point they tried having me on a leash. My DM loved the idea and often used this with a hidden sign or a message for me to just stop roleplaying until the party realised they are one dwarf short.

[@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos]

That's epically funny

[@Konpekikaminari]

I've been sitting on this one for over 2 years, the basic premise: the character was an explorer of sorts, one day they ventured with their group into some unassuming ruins, where they all died; the character's last memory is of fire and a distinct sound. Some time later the character awakens with little memory of the incident, finding themselves intact, save for their face- half of it is charred with their eye a glowing ember, they also possess power over fire now. Thus begins a quest for answers regarding what happened and how they're back from the dead The execution in my current "Shadow of the Demon Lord" campaign (great system, btw) is as followed: he was an adventurer of moderate renown in his original life time, known for his signature combat Scythe (think "burial blade") and corvid aesthetics. After his awakening 2 years prior to the campaign he discovered his party has evolved into a church-established adventurers guild and his party leader declared a saint He's well on his way to be my 1st character to reach a proper campaign end

[@cptclonks7279]

I have a few: My first was a lightning based sorc. His mother was struck via lightning dragon while she was pregnant. She died he lived leaving a nuclear bomb also known as a baby. Always grew in isolation so just learnt languages but not magic since the city elder believed that it would be impossible to harness his power (a way to explain how my pc knows so many languages) so he was always on his own. No one couldn't even walk close to him or they get zapped. So after enough mages were brought in place they cast as many anti magic circles as they can so the elder can put on a special sit of armour retrofitted from his father. This acted as a magical Faraday cage. Allowing him to hang around people without incinerating them. So he lived in that piece of armour for 10 years as it would automatically adjust to changes of his body he never took it off infron5 of anyone. Over time it became a second skin a vader moment. Turns out this power was siphoned from the dragon into the child. So this ancient blue dragon has been trying to kill the kid for 16 years and he was successful not in killing him but in taking his magic back. Leaving him in the hands of fate. So fate embraced him. Luck and destiny. That would be his new domain. He used to control a basic element now he controls fundamental processes of reality. A clockwork soul.

[@franconunez925]

Ok, this seems interesting, not gonna lie(If I really understood the concept that is).

[@mercenariamercenaria]

A psionic soul sorcerer who learned how to selectively erase her own memories with the blink of an eye. uses it to erase anything she finds too upsetting/disturbing to remember. very easygoing and cheerful, believes she lives a charmed life because as far as she knows, nothing bad has ever happened to her. Excited for when other ppl begin to notice that I don't remember many important things from our adventures

[@justinecourtneysgavel89]

His name was WILLIAM EDISON SHIRE (and you have to say it like that), human warlock. A retired Adventurer who settled down after marrying his now husband and adopting a daughter, becoming a history teacher. After his daughter was grown & went off to become a scholar, he decided to take a break from teaching to become an Adventurer again. The thing is, his husband is a beholder AND his patron, his adoptive daughter is a winged centaur who was randomly left at his doorstep as a baby, and he had a prosthetic arm... that was actually a pet mimic. Loved him SO much. He unfortunately became the punching bag of the campaign due to his overly enthusiastic & quirky personality and the rest of the PCs being more brooding characters.

[@joshuareid5468]

once played a tiefling street thug who one day robbed a passing wizard, took his book and studied it the best he could. crude drawings and chicken scratch writing was all he had to go on. he joined a traveling mercenary group and got off the streets and eventually became a respected wizard. the first few sessions were fun, rolling some dice to see what random cantrip/spell he cast until he got the hang of which drawing goes to which spell. he got the hang of it quickly

[@NuclearCharm]

Human Berserker Barbarian It stems from his ancestor's blessing from a god of war that passed on to their children and got stronger, eventually too strong for their bodies and triggered with the slightest anger. My character trained his body to withstand the effects more and seeks to break this divine-blessing-turned-divine-curse I use Frenzy's exhaustion effects to mechanically represent the toll on his body.

[@chalkwarrior5542]

A warlock that can steal souls by taking someone by the hand. Meet my neutral evil Fallen Aasimar warlock named Valerie, who steals souls for her patron (who also happens to be one of her adoptive fathers). She originally had a very clever setup as a dancer, as when she would take someone's hand to dance, she would slowly sap away at their soul until there was nothing left, making it look like the person was tired from dancing. Eventually, a paladin with Divine Sense revealed what was going on and she had to go into hiding, which is why she would end up with the party. I haven't gotten to use her yet, but we already know what campaign she's gonna be used in. It's just a matter of time.

[@AlexLJ55]

A druid with amnesia that gets partial transformations because he can't quite remember what the animals look like.

[@ala5530]

I've got a rather fun one from a couple of one-shots: A Warforged Fighter (Champion, played at both lvl 14, and at lvl 20) named Wall Unit 7/Daybreak Company (retired). To quote the backstory on his first outing- Commissioned as part of a set of 9 golmim for the mercenary Daybreak Company's Engineering corps, Wall Unit 7 was on the books as "Equipment, Siege, Animated (1)," although he was given a Rank to make sure no-one tried to vandalise or graffiti him. They even bolted his Rank to his forehead, so everyone would know. He spent much of his time digging wells and latrines (in that order), and building and breaking fortifications to make it safe for Daybreak Company. The people inside didn't like it when he broke their fortifications, and they wanted to make it not safe for Daybreak, so he and the other Wall Units were usually sent in through the breach first to make it safe for Daybreak. Built as a siege engine(er), Wall Unit 7 was programmed with the collected academic treatises on how to lay out a military camp, how to build roads and bridges (and how to destroy roads and bridges), how to build an impregnable fortress, and how to bring one down. He was built with keen senses, to better analyse a structure's soundness (and, as his organic comrades quickly realised, hear the outcome of a dice roll, letting them fleece civilians and soldiers of other units out of large amounts of cash). He was also programmed with an unshakeable loyalty to his master (in this case, the Daybreak Company in general, and his chain of command in particular). Unfortunately, peace broke out, and the quartermasters figured that it would be cheaper to get rid of the Wall Units than to keep them warehoused and maintained (and come the happy day that war gets brokered again, it should be easy to pick them up again. After all, where is a golem going to wander off to?). Because Wall Unit 7 had a Rank, they couldn't sell him, so they gave him the standard mustering-out issue, and told him to get lost. That was five months ago. And right now, he is very lost.

[@TheRaven_200]

I have a couple actually. 1. “Jackie AKA, “The Shaper” - This is a serial killer Changeling, with a strong love of what they call, “The beauty of death and the dead.” They’re an Assassin Rouge who target attractive people. After they kill their target, they completely dismember everything from the neck down, leaving the face completely undamaged. 2. “Dio Nevin” - An Assaimar, Pact of the Undead Warlock, who’s parents are victims of The Shaper. Dio seeks the secrets of life and death so he can accomplish 2 goal: Bring his parents back from the dead, and kill The Shaper. As such, Dio agreed to become a Warlock for the goddess of death and the undead.

[@Venomtankmod]

I played a warlock recently who carried an aspect of her patron around with her at all times as a pact of the “blade” weapon. Grabbed the polymorph spell to turn her sentient familiar cat who’s also her patron into a god damn 20 ft giant bear. Dm realized the problem after I used it to solo a mini boss. And yes I still ride it and use eldritch blast and fireball. So basically I’m playing Annie from lol

[@estebanramirez1178]

3:33 I had a VERY similar concept, but he was built a little differently. He was an Inspector Gadget reference. To really get into it, he was an Armorer with a f*** ton of gadgets stuffed inside of him. All the spells that would normally be cast has been heavily reflavored to be as non-magical, but just as zany, as possible. (Just a heads up, but the DM and I agreed that spells like Counterspell had an EMP-like effect on most of his “gadgets.”, but weren’t necessarily strong enough to knock him out.). For example, Featherfall launched a bunch of wired umbrellas that wrapped around the target. They ceased functioning after a minute. Prestidigitation was my favorite spell of all time. His fingertips had everything you needed, such as a lighter, magnifying glass, fire exinguisher, seasoning shaker, fart gun, tiny drum set, etc. What made it really fun was that we could use sidekicks, which are an optional rule in Tasha’s. The DM was cool about since I was the closest thing we had to a support, but even then, it was still relatively mediocre. I took the Pot of Awakening infusion, used a sapling that was a gift from the fey wild, and birthed my little buddy, Fernando, the Awakened Shrub. So he became a spell caster (healer) to keep us alive. He was awesome as a living shrub with druidic and divine magic, and the way he casted spells was super cute. For example, he glowed like a Christmas tree to cast Sacred Flame and sprouted red berries all around him like a bush when he casted Goodberry.

[@sophiescott143]

I don't really understand the "GMs are required to allow any and all character concepts the players come up with, no matter what" thing. As a GM it's my job to craft a coherent narrative and build a cohesive world. It's my job to say no during character creation to any character concept that doesn't fit the world and plot I've built. I have a particular plot and world in mind. If you can't come up with a character to fit that, this isn't the table for you.

[@geoDB.]

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[@BiggestGal]

I recently got my hands on the Tal'Dorei Reborn book and thought its character creation options were super duper awesome. I also around that same time learned that there is a color pigment called Mummy Brown that is literally made of ground up, mummified bodies. This gave me the idea to make a blood wizard using the Tal'Dorei Reborn subclass whose spellbook, instead of being full of notes and transcribed incantations and stuff like a normal wizard, is actually a bunch of blank canvases on which she paints these beautiful pictures that represent her spells using blood and mummy pigments.

[@a1z158]

A githyanki who was raised by a rogue mind flayer

[@sorenmiller5355]

Finally playing this one with a friend of mine being the DM! All the edge on this one Matthias Griffane. A Protector Aasimar Paladin of Redemption belonging to a house that has been watched over by by a single Planetar for generations. He has various siblings to play with this single concept: an older Protector Aasimar Paladin of the Crown brother, an older Human Fighter sister who tries to prove herself for lacking holy heritage or magical capabilities, a younger Tiefling Life Cleric brother - the cursed outcast of the family who was destined to be the fallen child of the house - a younger Scourge Aasimar Divine Soul Sorcerer who's much more shy and studious than her aggressive elder sister, and the youngest being a Protector Aasimar sister. All born to a Human priestess of Ilmater and an Aasimar Paladin of Glory to Helm. I told him about all this and said: "That's all where my character comes from, you can disregard all of it if you want. Let me get to what I really want to do with this character," I leaned in told him this had to be the secret between us for the party to never know, "I want you to break him... I want this kind, pure character to fall from grace..." you see, the fascinating thing about Aasimar and Paladins are that they are build options that rely on roleplaying: if you disobey you oath, you become an Oathbreaker; if you defy your celestial you become a fallen Aasimar; if you die without fulfilling your oath....... you become a Death Knight. I don't plan on this PC getting better. Just slowly, slowly, getting worse until death comes for him and he becomes an enemy of the party and possibly whatever character I play when he dies. I looked at my DM, a long time friend and fellow player, and asked "Can you do this?" He looked back at me and said "... Oh, you bet your ass I can."

[@xavieryevergreen5684]

I came up with some basic concepts while listening. - Oath of Natural Recycling Paladin - Elemental Artificer who believes in a holy trinity of elements - A character who adapts their magic based on story decisions (not in the usual way, this would sort of bring in multiverse theory and/or time travel. Ex: one decision leads to beoming better with fire while a different decision in that time would lead them to become better with water)

[@bossman983]

This was definitely a collaboration between my DM and I, since my original character was a Warlock-Paladin Tiefling who was basically a rebellious teen having a "Good" phase, but being raised in Hell, his ideas of what was "normal" made that kinda difficult. As a Redeemer Paladin, he gave the "bad guys" every chance he could, but once that was off the table, torturing and/or enslaving "bad guys" was just what people are supposed to do, right? Kinda tropey, but it had some fun RP moments, as most players and NPCs saw him still as evil, which was disheartening for him. Partway through the campaign though, my DM introduced a Vengeance Paladin who had spent the last several millennia in the Abyss, so he was really f-d up from his time there, but he was predominantly still true to his tenents. Long story short, the guy was the leader of an ancient order with a sour reputation, as they were basically a penal order where people could have their crimes and sins forgiven by fighting the Abyss to death and beyond as Death Knights. They were perfect for each other - he was a mentor and father figure as someone who could understand my character's perspective, and I was basically made his successor and confidant by helping him re-establish his order. There's a lot more context to all this, but having the character concept shift from a kinda goofy juxtaposition of backstory - to a fairly deep exploration of ones dark side, nature vs nurture, and trying to define evil - is what made that campaign for me.

[@DivingDog0]

Had a warforged bard once. He was built specifically as manufactured studio audience. He'd stand in crowds at theatres or sport events and react appropriately and on cue. When war began, suddenly there wasn't time for theatres and sporting events. So now he had to dip into Adventuring for financial means. His bardic inspiration could be applause, woops, cries for encore, or stadium chants. And his cutting words were heckles or just a "hey batter batter, hey batter batter, hey batter batter - SWING".

[@phyrexiancoffee6324]

I recently got to play a Human Way of The Open Hand Monk named Hans in a one shot. He was born deaf and mute, and so he joined a monastery to better equip himself for the hard life ahead of him. Over time he learned not only martial arts to defend himself, but how to read and write, and developed his sight to be able to easily read lips. He mainly communicated through writing things down in his journal for people to read, but with his party of long time friends he developed a rudimentary form of sign language. I named him Hans because whether through fighting or diplomacy, the Hans (hands) do the talking.

[@gammagong9435]

Clockwork sorcerer. His background is that he was a farmer millenia ago, when a strange piece of metal fell from the sky into his fields. After removing it he went back to work. And worked. His family died and left the farm to him. And he worked it. Until one day, he saw his reflection and realized he hadnt aged a day in over 90 years. Come to find out, that piece of metal that hit his farm, was actually a piece of the Modron God, Primus, that fell to the prime material plane after Orcus Killed him. That piece held some of Primus' power, and a mote of his divinity, which made the farmer immortal, but ruined his sense of time. So now he is searching for a way to fix the problem, but because of his terrible temporal sense, he tends too arrive or respond too early or too late to everything. For roleplay, everything he does, intentionally or otherwise is always even or averaged, so his attack rolls are aways 11(D20 average), the damage he takes is always an even number, he could spit water out of his mouth and the drops would fall in perfectly uniform sizes and create a geometric pattern on the ground. He hates this, and tries to create small instances of chaos as often as possible, but no matter what, it always results in order and neutrality.

[@Thekingofcrab]

11/10 idea please use it

[@starhalv2427]

A chaotic evil Tabaxi ranger named Zora (After a fictional character that served as an inspiration, but that character of mine eventually became entirely different). She originally lived with her mother, who constantly told Zora to forget about ever meeting her father because he's a "bad man". During her rebellious years, she would constantly leave home to explore snowy mountains (They lived in Icewind Dale, in one of ten towns), and one day during such an adventure she was approached by a second Tabaxi she had ever seen, who gave her a pistol and a magical amulet that creates an infinite amount of bullets, before disappearing. What she didn't know, was that her father was a warlock of Orcus fiercely loyal to his evil overlord, who had a change of heart when he realised a town that's about to be destroyed by his patron serves as home for a wife who left him years ago and a daughter he never met. So he gave his magical artifacts to his daughter and tried to save his wife, but was killed by the same undead creatures he controlled until "betraying" Orcus. The town was destroyed too, with Zora being the sole survivor. She went to a neighbouring town, where she promptly got drunk and refused to pay. Since then, she had been hiding in wilderness and occasionally returning to civilisation to cause some trouble, eventually getting a bounty on her head, but despite being a bandit and a occasional burglar or murderer, she's hell-bent on hunting down any demonic activity in the far north, especially undead servants of Orcus. At some point, Zora ended up in Feywild, where she made friends with a Pixie and got herself a magical charm that separates her shadow into a separate creature- except she has absolutely no control over that shadow, and the item is cursed therefore impossible to remove. After a couple years in Feywild (An unknown amount of time in the material world), she finally returned to Faerun, far from home and with her first goal being to get some beer. That's the point this campaign is at right now. She might be far from lands where she had a bounty, but since her shadow is doing whatever it wants it looks like Zora has no shadow, so superstious folk will think she's a vampire. The main concept of that character is a free spirit; a criminal who always does her own thing, while intentionally or unintentionally provoking fights wherever she goes (She's not a murderhobo tho).

[@wyvernknight]

Here's mine, A Circle of the Forge Druid War-forged, Experiment 42: Sentinel, He was an private experiment by a kingdom to make a war-forged perfectly sentient, sense war-forged typically have a command made by their creator. He was created in a bunker far away from the kingdom in a magical forrest, and for one reason or another (i let that up to the dm) the experiment was changed, and they needed to make a warforged that could defend the city, which explains his name "Sentinel", but then, the experiment was dropped because the kingdom went to war and couldn't waste the materials on an experiment seemingly not working. Some time after, the plant life was able to break through the bunker, and attacked itself to the parts of Sentinel that had been sitting there for ages, he had faint memories of the time during both his time when he was meant for higher sentience, and as a defender of the city, when the experiment crew would attempt to activate him. When he woke, everything was different, nothing looked quite the same. The magical plant life seemed to awaken him, either it be by a god or a forest spirit (also left up to dm). He's more of a plant druid than an animal druid. He also as an arm "blade" he found in the lab intended to be fitted on him when the experimenters finished working. I put blade in quotations because it's actually a flail, that when he activates his fingers retract into his spherical palm and become the studs on a studded flail, then it pops off with a chain connecting it to his wrist, with the chain being supported with thorny vines. One of my favorite things about him is his experiment and spell casting is relating to foliage growing on his body. Like if he cast goodberry, the berries grow from a small bush growing on his shoulder or casting thorn whip, a thorny vine growing around his wrist, or his shield is a giant mushroom growing on his left arm, and when he wildshapes, he pulls a rope start he installed on himself. and he has to pull it a couple times like an old mower your dad has kept in a shed for 5 years. Can't wait to play him! I plan to in an upcoming campaign that's the sequel to a campaign that fell into hiatus

[@xavieryevergreen5684]

Ok thats a sick character concept! I hope you get to try this guy out.

[@wyvernknight]

@@xavieryevergreen5684, Thanks! I hope I do too lol

[@snagonbosstaztamer7121]

I just put this on the subreddit and figured I could put it here too: So I wanted a character who relied on nothing but themselves in combat. Meaning no external weapons or armor, just me. After spending too much time looking through any and every race and class combo, official or homebrew, I finally settled on the one that I thought would be the most enjoyable and coolest to play! And I just started playing him too at level 9! Introducing Rhythe, my Variant Simic Hybrid Amalgam. The premise is that as they level, instead of getting abilities, spells or etc. he mutates. Developing new or changing existing body parts. To keep things simple because there are just so many little elements to this, I will just go over and simplify some of the more, powerful abilities. They get natural weapons as claws and bite, dealing 1d6 + DEX or STR respectively. They have natural armor, making ac = 10 + DEX mod + CON mod (and you best believe I'm getting them to 20 each). Has a permanent spider climb ability due to mutating spider legs drider style. If they drop below 0 hp, as a reaction they stabilize at 1 hp once per long rest. When they charge someone from 20 ft away all attacks dealt right afterwards are at advantage. They have poisonous claws, which deal 1d6 poison on unarmed strikes. If the are ever below half heath, all attacks gain a bonus 2d6. To top it all off at level 6 and 14 they get extra attacks when the attack action is made as well as bonus action attack combined with a 10th level special ability where when a claw attack is made I attack with each hand simultaneously doubly the attacks per turn. As a final not my DM allows us to start each character with one utility magic item and one offensive or defensive magic item. My magic item are custom silver bracers that add 1d6 acid damage to unarmed strikes. Now to put it all together, if my character was in a battle at below half heath and charged an enemy from lets say 25ft away at 14th level. That means I would deal 8 attacks; 2 from regular attack action, 4 from additional attacks, and 2 more from bonus action attack all made at advantage. Assuming they hit that is 3d6 slashing, 1d6 poison, and 1d6 acid. All together making 18d6 slashing, 6d6 poison, and 6d6 acid plus modifiers for each attack. I'm so excited to get to this level!!

[@jerrymajors8132]

One that I have that seems kinda cool is a literal heal-bot (warforged life cleric) made by the International Adventurer League's Production Plant for the sole purpose of keeping adventurers alive. At first, he has exclusively buff, defense and healing spells, but as the campaign progresses, he realizes that the best way to keep adventurers alive is not by constantly healing them, but by making sure the threat is removed as quickly as possible. So, he slowly starts taking more and more offense and shut-down spells. Another one that's a bit on the sillier side, but still kinda cool, is a wererat (swiftstride shifter) who was once a rat exterminator (hunter ranger). He was clearing some rats from the town catacombs, and followed one to what he thought was going to be their nest. Instead, he was met with a rat throne room, and the high priest rat squeaked a curse at him, turning him into a wererat. In his wererat form, he was chased out of town, and now lives in hiding a few towns away. There's also one who is as mechanically close to a displacer beast as I could build (wildhunt shifter astral self monk).

[@DarkJusn2020]

*Warning: OH BOY THAT'S A LOT OF TEXT DOWN THERE* I've never played D&D. Ever. But I've tried since some time getting into it (currently still not in a campaign :c) and this is one of the first ideas for a character that I've had since then: (5e) Goliath fighter. Since he was young, the pressures of Goliath societies always pressured him to be useful, at the expense of having a lot of fear that if one day he stops being a functional member of his tribe, he would probably be left behind on his own luck. But, his younger sister always was there for him so he wouldn't break himself either phisically of mentally, and was his best and most intimate friend. One day though, he realized that obviously her sister has been acting more different than usual. A little bit more distant, and asked her what's wrong. Oh boy. Turns out she was since some time ago into a relationship (Sorry if that's not how Goliath societies work but I couldn't find any info regarding that theme) but things weren't anymore what they were. Now her partner was irresponsible, manipulative and extremely violent. That same day, he had hit her for the first time, and threatened her to not tell her anyone. His brother didn't like it when he found out, so he went straight to give his "so loved brother in law" a visit. He killed him. It was supposed to be only a warning, a "yo chill tf out", but things escalated into a really nasty fight and he ended up killing him. Terrified of what would happen to her sister if he fled without giving explanation, he stayed to explain everything and be judged. He said that thengs weren't supposed to end this way, that he only wanted to warn him that if he didn't stop being this piece of shit, he would make him pay. But he never meant to kill him! So after some thinking, his tribe decided that he would be exiled and not allowed to return. Basically his worst fear, quoting the beggining of this essay "Be left behind on his own luck" He was destroyed, but had to leave without even the permission to farewell his sister, and so he left. Wandering the mountains for some weeks until he was on the edge of losing his life, he found a strange place on the mountains, some kind of monastery. The monks, seeing the state he was in, gave him a warm bed, food and cured his wounds, all for the modic price of chopping wood and protect the monastery while he was recovering. He accepted, and slowly but surely, he started to regain his strength and also started to befriend the monks, until he was finally ready to go. Before leaving, he asked to the monks a favour: Find his former tribe, and tell her sister that he was okay, that he had found people that helped him on his darkest hour and inspired him to do the same: Help people :)

[@TheKylesides]

I have a character I have wanted to play for a while. His name is Thaddeus Tiller, an abyssal tiefling armorer artificer with many pie in the sky ideas. He was going to be born human but some cultists were messing with an artifact of Demogorgon and it affected him, transforming him before his birth. The cult was dealt with by a pair of clerics, and an artificer from the big city. These people would go on to play a big role in shaping Thaddeus's world view and personality. One cleric was a local acolyte to Ioun, helping to ease the rest of the towns' misgivings about Thaddeus's "condition", as well as imparting a love for knowledge on to him growing up. The other cleric was a follower of Eilistraee, imparting a general desire to help those caught in bad situations while also giving him a "don't take crap from anyone" mentality. Said cleric had been traveling for a bit with the artificer, who himself had come from the big city to lend a hand (and test out some new "toys" on some arseholes.) The artificer would go on to become Thaddeus's teacher when he left for the big city at 14, learning the trade alongside some friends at the artificer's guild. Picking up a habit of cycling through rituals to Ioun, Eilistraee and Moradin through out the month depending on when it was most apropriate. He also picked up the habit of being a bit of a horn dog, albeit one that works hard to be respectable about it. The part about him being an abyssal tiefling was because I thought it would be interesting to have tieflings that get mild shape shifting abilities based around the various demon lords, having a body that shifts between something that looks like a fairly standard tiefling to something that resembles a sort of halfway point to looking like one of those lords. In Thaddeus's case he would have arms that can shift to being completely slack and doubling in length, as well as his hair growing longer and wilder similar to the beast transformation from Bloodborne. His mouth would also extend out and his teeth would grow a lot sharper. Topping it all off with his horns growing slightly longer, eyes going completely yellow and his legs and feet stretching and developing small fish scales and webbing between his toes. His armor would be set up to handle his shifting frame, such as the armor from his shoulders down to his gauntlets would be heavily segmented with overlapping plates to accomodate for the tentacle arms, as well as a helmet the resembles one of those beaked ones but more rounded to give some room for his mouth. So in summary a partial shape shifting tiefling armorer artificer with a generally curious and kind personality who wants to make the world a better place for everyone with his inventions, while also being to type who will throw hands with anyone if he thinks they need to get a dose of reality from his war hammer/great axe. Edit: I only realized how much of a wall of text I wrote up after it was posted, my bad.

[@sirdust6852]

An Echo Knight Fighter Warforged who came into existence in the Underdark when a group of Kuo-toa found a toy knight standing up right. With enough faith in the toy knight, it came to life as a god who watches and protects those who need it.

[@Xecryo]

I think one of my favorites is one I never got to play. She's a Triton Fathomless Warlock and she has a unique relationship with her patron. You see I was reading up on Kuo-toa and how they basically willed their god into creation through sheer belief to free themselves from Aboleths so I took that concept and ran with it. You see she didn't have friends growing and her parents unintentionally showed favoritism towards her older Bard brother. So she would often go to some abandoned Kuo-toa ruins to play where she found the statue of an old Kuo-toa god. Now they had been driven off so the statue hadn't been worshipped in some time. But kid's minds being powerful things she started treating it as an imaginary friend and as she grew up she started genuinely believing it was real and referring to it as her "boyfriend". This is because the statue was becoming real like the Kuo-toa gods but instead of that it became more attuned to being the god of this lonely child who wanted a friend it was what she believed it to be. So it wasn't really evil but it did have the singular objective of protecting this Triton girl. BUUUUT eventually her father found out and Tritons knowing full well what Kuo-toa things can do destroyed the statue and when the girl insisted her boyfriend was real (and still existed despite the statue's destruction) they lock her away in an insane asylum. The "boyfriend" did not take kindly to this and gave her what little power he could which she promptly used to escape. Of course she is now pursued by authorities so she made a deal with her "boyfriend" to help him get more worshipers so they can both get more powerful. She would be pact of the talisman and treat it as if it were her flesh and blood boyfriend giving it to other party members telling her boyfriend to "protect them" or telling the party members to "protect her boyfriend" or "we're having an argument right now and I can't deal with him you take him today". All she wants from adventuring is for people to say a prayer of thanks to her boyfriend. To me it is a backstory so strange with plenty of storytelling potential like complications with authorities, what happens to this deity's personality if others start worshiping him, what happens if the party has a cleric?

[@DreamTiger5]

I have two character concepts that I’m very proud of: Euwain McKelley, a Psyblade Rogue satyr that’s more of a businessman than a fighter, but has deadly efficiency in combat. His favorite activity is conning corrupt businessmen and politicians out of their money, which he then turns around into investments in small businesses. Vincent von Helsing, a human-turned-undead Ferocious Berzerker that came from a long line of vampire hunters. After retiring, he embraced undeath and came back as a revenant with the sole purpose of eradicating the vampires with reckless abandon, now that he doesn’t have to fear becoming one himself.

[@adamschank7703]

I have a few of ideas (none of which I have names for yet): (1) An adult silver dragon cursed into the form of a half-elf (because of the curse he doesn't have access to his dragon abilities like flight and breath weapon). He had always been curious about the mortal races, but wouldn't get too close so as not to scare them off. After he was cursed, he wandered into a village and was welcomed with open arms. After spending some time there, he fell in love with the village and the people there. He considers the other villagers his family and the relationships he has with each of them make up his "hoard". He is a devout follower of Bahamut and will do what he can in order to keep the people he loves safe. The thing is, no one knows he's a dragon and he's hesitant to reveal to them what he is for fear of scaring them off and rejecting him. There will be some clues to what he is like patches of scales on certain areas of his body (his back, parts of his arms), a slight chill to his skin, his ability to speak draconic, and, if the DM allows, a slight resistance to cold damage. (2) A paladin the was betrayed by his order. This has led to him questioning his beliefs and later a belief that the gods are selfish and will only help mortals if it suits them. While he acknowledges the gods exist, he refuses to worship them and instead follows an ideal that he has for the world. That ideal is compassion. He seeks to help others because he believes it's the right thing to do, not because some god wills it. (3) A drow fighter/bard that follows the drow goddess, Eilistraee, and dual-wields scimitars. He loves to dance and may even incorporate his swords into his dances if he's performing or attacking. That's all I have for him so far, but I am planning to study certain martial arts that involve dual swords as well as dancing so that I get a better understanding of how he moves.

[@jonathanschaefer9848]

My favorite is a shadow sorc/fathoms lock build I did. Story goes he was born touched by shadowfell (village near portal) and was shunned by a lot of people, he was “bad luck.” He believed them and was very superstitious and maladjusted so when a fortune teller said he would “die on land” (a vague and easy fortune for most people) he took it seriously and immediately left for the open sea. Made a deal while he was out there to ensure his safety. I played him very anxious on land, constantly casting blade ward and itching to get back on land. At sea he’s boisterous and a little reckless, likes to scrap. Lot of fun for the session or two I had with him.

[@Sh4deDaS1lly]

I got a pretty interesting idea +TLDR A Vulpin Sorcerer. People hated him where he used to live, so he snuck into a large city and started a shop. He bartered and sold items, his business slowly grew, and he learned magic through the scrolls and spell books he got from the trading. Before long, the shop was packed with people, and this caught the attention of the king. Instead of kicking him out for sneaking in, the king told the medieval fantasy IRS to not hold back on him. He became bankrupt and is now willing to do anything, and I mean anything, to remake the shop that once flourished. TLDR: Fox dude snuck into a city and became a merchant, after it gets popular, he gets taxed to oblivion and has to go bankrupt and he wants to remake it.

[@chefmorningstar2]

Picture Ron Swanson if he was a 5 and a 1/2 foot tall earth Genasi druid mailman made of pure onyx. I can't remember what his name was, I think it was Steinn. I have yet to play him in an actual campaign but got to play him in a one-shot (second time playing DND and didn't take any healing spell because why would a mailman who works by himself in the mountains need healing spells, i gave him a bunch of earth related moves, think earth tremor, mold earth and magic stone. Almost had a TPK because the organizers assumed I made a functional character... oops). My idea for the character would be that he is this guy who delivers mail around the mountains, he spends most of his time not actually walking and rather shifts the ground around him to slide around (think Toph earth skating in the last airbender). He hates the woods despite being a druid because he can't manipulate the wood like he does the stone and loathes having to be indoors unless there is a stone/tile floor that he can use to move without actually walking. He does use wild shape but usually to get himself out of trouble and uses does it to run or in rare cases hide, he would turn into a statue kind of thing. Really want to play him in an actual campaign but don't really have the time.

[@luciferandassociates9255]

Hubby has two. Ace: Goblin Zealot Barbarian, weapon is a Mace or Flail. Be the parties Muscle at 3 feet tall and always ready to throw hands when the party needs it. Timestuck: any class and any race, This one will take alot help from the dm but you're story is you're playing a character stuck in a timeloop and everytime you die you end up back to before you're level one. You've reset many many many times before maybe you've been with this party before, maybe not, maybe everything won't play out the same and new events will happen or maybe the dm will tell you that you remember something happened here before in a past run. Or maybe everything is blending into together. How many past lovers have you had, children? Friends? Will you see old friend on this adventure, they don't count as friend because they don't know you, but you know things about them. He hasn't gotten a chance to play this one but he really wants to, say it will give him a different spin on history check and I chance to play a very unique jaded character.

[@Thundarr100]

I have a few characters that I have been thinking of creating. I don’t have a group to play them with for the moment though. 1) A Half Elven Investigator: I haven’t come up with a name for him yet. Technically he’s a rogue/sorcerer. He was conceived through violence when a human male attacked his elven mother. His mother died in childbirth and he was raised by her cousin’s family. His family and the other elves in the community keep him at a distance emotionally, never really showing any affection. He deduced (quite correctly) that they blamed him for his mother’s death. He began to devote his life to the study of the criminal mind and learning to catch people like the man who assaulted his mother. However the years of emotional neglect, combined with the self imposed feelings of guilt, manifested in the form of a second personality. That of a sadistic serial killer . So here’s the rub. The serial killer personality knows that he is a sorcerer and has learned several spells that would aid him in his killing. The investigator personality is totally unaware that he has this power, and lives his life as an investigating rogue. Whenever the characters killer persona kills another victim, he always leaves a message behind, taunting his investigator persona. So he ends up being his own nemesis. The game mechanics for the personalities is pretty simple. Every night as the character sleeps he has to roll a Wisdom Save. It starts with a fairly low DC (10 or lower) but increases by +1 every night. When he eventually fails, he wakes up as the killer. He goes out and finds a victim, kills her, then goes back and climbs back into bed. His bloodlust sated for the moment, he reverts back to his good persona who then finds that he has just missed his quarry taking another victim. 2) This one isn’t as fleshed out as the previous one, but I think that it would be fun to play. It’s a much sillier concept than the other one too. I’d like to play as an ettin with bickering heads. They’d be kind of like a cross between the three headed knight from Monty Python’s The Holy Grail and the comedy duo of The Smuthers Brothers. I just think that it would be hilarious to have one ettin head turn to the other and say “Mom always liked you best!”

[@Shark__Sunny]

A character idea I have is Fredrick “Rickity”D. Stule. He’s a kind, humble, old gnome wizard who has lived a long peaceful life and yearns for an adventure before he becomes too old for it. He’s not very powerful but he has a big heart and just wants to help anyone he can. The village he grew up in all affectionately dub him “old Rickity” as he’s been there so long he’s pretty much become a part of the furniture there, but still wobbly between his 2 legs and staff. He’s a well loved face and his whole village worries about him as he leaves The twist is, he’s actually a chair that was true polymorphed into a gnome a really long time ago. As such, he’s lived his whole life not knowing it, and few remain who knew that truth. He’s literally a character who is made to die out on his adventures. And whether is sudden or dramatic, it’ll also be really confusing for the rest of the party. Especially if he lasts a long time.

[@DoomsdayR3sistance]

For characters I haven't played, I think my coolest idea is a Minotaur Hexblade Warlock/Bear Totem Barbarian. A former Gladiator that in seeking his prized fights came across a shadowy weapon that promised him the power to take on the strongest foes. He is a follower of Tempus and follows the rules of seeking honourable battles while having disdain for cowardly, he will taunt those that are weak, more so those whom are in a good position such as nobility that choose to live an idle lifestyle. He has insulted nobles before and will do it again, he knows battle, he loves battle and the joy of winning against a strong opponent in a fair fight. His time as a Gladiator also taught him that such battles do not need to be to the death and he knows how to put on a show for an audience. The play style would be that he uses a couple of spells before charging into a rage and eldritch smiting. He has options for most forms of combat. His goal is to become the most powerful of creatures, a red dragon, which is why at level 20 (hexblade 17/barbarian 3) he gets True Polymorph, to become the pinnacle as he sees it (an adult red dragon). He will travel with other adventurers where he perceives that he will get good battles and/or he will get stronger out of it. The character is intended to Lawful Evil, tending towards Neutrality, generally power hungry and self-serving but always following the rules for his desired honourable combat. If he ever got to level 20, the character sheer would likely look like this: ddb.ac/characters/71034935/eyH1KR

[@Sgtnolisten]

I’ve got two. 1: A caster (either bard or wizard) schooled in illusions who uses all of his magical abilities in performances for the entertainment of his audiences. Things like mirror illusions to play a one man orchestra, or putting his entire audience in an illusion where they could watch plays like they were background characters instead of an audience in a theater. Like, imagine if you could have watched Star Wars from the sidelines, being a missed storm trooper or one of their other pilots in the xwings kind of thing. 2: a character who has an incredible fascination with dragons of any kind who’s goal is to build a restaurant entirely dedicated to serving true form dragons of any type and the strength/ability to keep his place a neutral zone.

[@brokeninkwell3818]

The best concept character I have is a plague doctor alchemist, I also want to incorporate rats into the character because that is how the plague spread. The simplest way to do this is make them a shifter, but there is a version of the character that goes full wererat. The more I read up on the rules for lycanthropy the more I love the idea. You see, when someone has an alignment that conflicts with the alignment of the were beast, they struggle against the curse and lose control to the beast within. This can lead to a Jekyll and Hyde dynamic where the doctor needs to constantly brew potions to suppress the curse, or risk the rat taking control.

[@cyberpunk-2O77]

You should look into Grim Hollow classes. They have a class to fit those very well

[@BummerSlug]

I really like the “help” idea. That sounds like a lot of chaos

[@frostbite.711]

One of my favorite characters todate: His name is Zevodur. He's a ghosthunter bloodhunter/pact of the kracken warlock mind flayer (I have a lot of homebrew for this character). Per the DM and my discussion, his patron is actually Cthulhu. Zev's main driving force is knowledge and survival and he will do anything in his power to achieve his goals. In order to keep himself alive, he has a ring that constantly supplies him with "disguise self" as he's aware that if he were to show his true form to most people, he would probably be hunted down and killed, so instead he takes on the appearance of a drow. Zev is typically neutral towards most people and will only help someone if he is given incentive to do so such as knowledge or a powerful magic item. He will easily turn on someone if given a better offer, and is even less likely to help people he has a particular dislike for unless of course they have something he deems as invaluable. Zev (as far as he knows) is the sole survivor of his colony, with him and his patron destroying it after he made his pact. Zev has a fascination for other races, magic, knowledge, and one of his favorite pass times include researching. He started off the campaign as a member of the dark guilds and was sent to a cave with some of his fellow guild members. He quickly turned on them and joined the main light guild after he was promised he could learn the secrets to a powerful healing potion. There's a bunch of other things, but through a deal with his patron, he would get a certain part of him (that he despises) removed if he was to create another mindflayer. He did so by accident, but my DM and I rule that he can control/command any mindflayers he creates. So one of these days he may have an army of mindflayer spawn at his beck and call. Also, per the DM's permission, Zev will become Cthulhu's "chosen" and gain a homebrew armor that gives him a lot of extra mind-based spells that will allow him to dominate his enemies while also being immune to mind-based conditions and resistant to some elements (I can't remember which atm).

[@CarlosRivera-jp9jh]

Built a halfling fighter named Briggs who's story I found pretty interesting. He's actually an ex adventurer and champion swordsman who long since retired after losing his title to some upstart. Now years later he's picked up his sword again after having found out the guy had poisoned him prior to their match. Not that he'd been completely idle. He's got his hands in the underbelly of most major cities thanks to connections he made in his younger years. (One of my friends actually asked to borrow him as an npc for a campaign he was running.

[@AntonsVoice]

A lizard man who was taken from his slaughtered tribe as an egg, and raised by a family of mixed race(and class) Knights. He has a spark of magic, but only a spark, so they taught him to become an Echo Knight, but he can never LEARN full magic, but can be GIVEN magic(AKA, Warlock). The family told him the truth as he got older, and helped him try to balance his nature, by nurturing in a militaristic way, which did work eventually. His echo shows his internal strife, as it fights far more ferociously then he does.

[@ProperDaveXD001]

One for the DMs here as a minor antagonist perhaps? An Aassimar (however it's spelt) armoured charlatan; Artificer (Armourer)14/ Fighter (Eldritch Knight) 3 with a rogue level for expertise and maybe a couple of wizard levels? This combination can pass as almost any class by clever use of magic items, keep players guessing exactly what they are. Appears in one town as a paladin, another area as a Ranger.

[@r.j.penfold]

I think one of my most outrageous characters is Khalil Thaler, human blood hunter who used to be an Avatar of Death. His background happens to be a one shot I was in where "The gods were mad" and the players could insert plot twists. Long story short, my character drew two cards from the Deck of Many Things and one of them was the Death card. Fortunately a player plot twisted him into a skinny dude in a cloak. I plan for him to be dressed as a plague doctor only because he has like, no immune system yet, having only recently gained mortality. I also took a bit of inspiration from Terry Pratchett where there are multiple deaths (that would explain the multiplying avatars but I don't know if that's supposed to be similar canon for how Death works in D&D). He gets fired because he's a dude now and is stripped of his powers and now he's just going around making sure the dead stay dead because he doesn't believe in messing with the natural order. I see a lot of potential for him but combined with my multitude of other characters and my crippling social anxiety, the likelihood of Khalil ever seeing play time is slim to none.

[@northernwuds3223]

Had a really cool character that I came up with recently. His name is Asi Lotar, a way of the astral self monk. He was once the death of another universe but was banished for falling in love with a mortal being who was related to a lich. Death's soul was flung into a human body in a separate universe, where he had no memory of being death, but rather a wanderer of the lands. He then went on to become a wise advice giver. He had face paint that made him look like a skull, and he wore tattered black robes with symbols of death. His Arms of the Astral Self would give him a pair of skeletal arms, his Visage of the Astral Self tore away his skin and muscle, revealing a skull with sigils marked in blue paint, and his Body of the Astral Self would give him a Black robe, exposing his chest, which was now a ribcage. If he ever reached the point of unlocking his Awakened Astral Self, he would fully become Death, regaining his memories, but only a fraction of his power, to keep it nice and balanced. TLDR: Death becomes horny and is sent to another universe for being horny, and he is put into a weak form to eventually regain his horniness, but is still a weak baby man.

[@eradian1]

I had one for an artificer who just really sucked at his job. He either stole or floundered his way through everything while learning to make things and only ever really figured out/finished his turtle steel defender. Eventually he becomes so frustrated that he seeks out a powerful entity that may make a bargain with him for help finishing his latest project (a "not" gun). His prototype is barely better than a fling and he gets the same effect out of just throwing magic stones. The goal of this character is to take him and eventually make an eldritch blast gun that shoots magic bullets (stones). The idea is that he'll largely take credit and try to hide the pact with the rest of the group by passing off his new strength as a new weapon.

[@ericmurotake5180]

While sightly grim, my Warlock main character is a very cool idea. Essentially, he was a former adventurer, with a party of close friends and a loved one, until a low-ranked member of the guild the crew had formed betrayed them and killed his friends and lover, and framed him for it, severing his lower right arm and using draconic fire to burn half his face to the bone. He was imprisoned for life, locked in a wretched prison, and largely sustained by sheer ANGER and thoughts of revenge. His patron is a "demon", which is actually a sloughed-off hate and vidictiveness of a god (essentially the part of a God that was willing and eager to smite ANYONE who roused their ire), whose initial display of good will was giving him a shadowy replacement of his sword arm and getting him out of the cell. What's interesting is that the magical arm DOESN'T conduct magic, so when he casts or draws his pact weapon, it basically comes from where the elbow seems to be.

[@eclipse9727]

Coolest Concept I have... at least for my perception of 'Cool', is a Warforged Blood Hunter named Dismal. His backstory is that they were created by two creators Dismal only knows by the codenames Nyx and Erebus. His purpose? To be a self-sufficient Battle Bot, who uses blood as an energy supply. They even has retractable needles in their finger to punch and suck blood out Jojo Vampire-style! As of writing this, they're about to find an interesting point about their past (because they have lost their memories after several decades of sheer code-based hunter instinct; aka no touchy unless death). They currently have a great relationship with their party, even knowing the secret of him being a robo-vampire (except one, in-canon), and him being a very great supporting gentle giant. I love playing them so much! :)

[@platinumchromee3191]

Blood fueled murderbot OC By any chance do you know game called ULTRAKILL?

[@eclipse9727]

@@platinumchromee3191 Nope! I made my character from two things I thought was cool, and then scrambling to justify its existence. Though a game has this already is... just expected imo.

[@Metalchemist2]

My favorite concept I have yet to use is The Old Oak. A halfling druid/ranger, haven't decided yet, who is actually an oak tree who lived in a cave which housed a bunch of gnome bandits. a random wizard adventurer granted it intelligence in an attempt to convince the tree to shift some of its' branches which were holding up the cave so as to collapse everything. The tree was well taken care of by the Gnomes, so it declined. In response the adventurer took some of its branches, spent some time to turn them into a cursed item and placed it onto the tree. The oak then turned into a halfling at the turn of the hour, collapsing the cave and dooming those who lived inside it. The tree now seeks revenge against this wizard who made it kill its caretakers, find a new place to live and then go back to being an oak tree. Albeit a now awakened one.

[@fero_zetta]

My most interesting character concept? A moth. I'll be playing it this Saturday, but in short, Lämp is the god of light (The campaign centers around gods) who made a vow of reincarnation, so he doesn't lose touch with the world. He is always reincarnated as a moth person (A homebrew race that can't fly very high or fast, aren't all that tall but can use silk in different ways like the web spell, a rope or a piece of clothing, and also have an integrated "interact with item" free action). Lämp is an old god, as old as light itself, he managed to keep his domain as one after mastering and adapting to magical light. However, the soon arrival of artificial light can prove an even greater challenge, so he is taking 14 levels of circle of the forged druid and 6 levels of Armorer Artificer to "adapt" and thus be able to keep light as a single domain and not having it split. He's the Mr. Rogers of the group (not my words, the group ones, since we have been roleplaying to get a grasp of our characters, but we're not advancing the plot) and a total LG, caring, wise, with a big heart and patient.

[@tundralwhisper7345]

I've got a few. A favourite of mine is the Reformed Paladin, and works best with traditionally evil races (such as Drow). You start with 3 levels in Paladin, to get your subclass, and pick Oathbreaker (if you wanna play up to that point, pick something that most would call evil, but that would be seen as good by their society). The story reasoning is that they made an objectively evil oath, and chose to break it, once and for all. Then, take levels in Cleric, Druid, or Bard (a few other classes like Ranger, Wizard, Monk, and such may also work), going for themes of encouraging liveliness, compassion, and peace. The key here is to be Good (chaotic, neutral, lawful, doesn't matter) in the eyes of most civilisations, but being *evil* in the eyes of the society that the original oath was sworn to. In the prime example, it'd be a drow. A paladin, who swore to conquer all in the name of Lolth, which the Drow would see as good, but slowly turned to reasonable morals. Soon, Eilistraee (goddess of good-aligned Drow) choses him to be a cleric of hers, but he must break his oath, fully and forever. And so, he does. Subclass change: Oath of Conquest -> Oathbreaker. Level up, Multiclass: Cleric, Light Domain Alignment: Drow Societal Alignment - LE General Societal Alignment - NG

[@countkingpen]

My favorite is a human Artificer I made named Mary. She is the truest essence of “I’m gonna press the button.” Her most famous quote? “If the thought of something makes me giggle for 15 or more seconds, I was told I’m not allowed to do it. But forgiveness is easier than permission!”

[@neferatih]

I've got two characters and concepts i think would be really cool and interesting. The first one would probably need lots of homebrew to even consider, and is more a plot concept that incorporates said character into it. The character is a bioweapon created by scientists in an attempt to aid a falling king who was at the break of war, many bioweapons similar to them were created. She's named 'Mizusu' although was mostly referred to as Biohazard:Displacer a sort of hybrid between a yuan-ti pureblood(or other race with resilience against poisons), fused with a displacer beast and is a Samurai fighter. These creations also have weapons sort of specialized towards their capabilities, a Katana in Mizusu's case. These weapons are sentient, abhorrent things made to adapt and evolve with the user and can be consumed or fused with their host to grant some benefit with a cost of some control. The whole story is about Mizusu and a faction betraying the people that created them and trying to fit in, adapt and find acceptance in the common populace and dealing with their own existance as well as the experiments that remain steadfast and loyal to their creators even after death and try to hunt the 'defects' down. The other one is a lot simpler. A (snow elf, levistus tiefling, otherwise cold resistance race) rune knight warrior from ancient times named Artemisia, carrying an ancient weapon (like a blade that is also a shield, some form of Switch axe or other such weapon). They could also be part caster, using runes to do specific stuff, mostly tied to ice. They also won't know common, due to their language being old and unusual (a dialect of giant and/or sylvan due to them being raised by runesmithing giants and having ties with ancient fey). I think the concept would be very interesting to execute in an actual game. If you've read all this. Thank you! Hope you found my concepts at the very least interesting if nothing else and that you have a good day! ^ ^

[@EroWaters]

For a Kingmaker campaign, I played an Elven-Aasimar Summoner. They were born into an incredibly wealthy family of elves that had the stereotypical appearance of pale skin and light hair. When they hit puberty, their skin and hair color/texture began to change -- tell-tale signs that the angelic heritage was strong in them. A less obvious sign? Their blood also became molten gold. Shortly after the changes began, they stumbled upon some hidden rooms where several "missing" or "deceased" family members were being kept. Family members within whom the angelic ancestry was also strong, and who had gold running through their veins, and they were being slowly bled. A constant flow of pure gold, right into the family coffers. Knowing they would be next, my character fled their home. They would avoid getting hit by physical blows as much as possible, and came off as a bit of a coward because of it. And because the change to their physical appearance was a slow process, they kept themselves covered up and masked, which would often put people off. They were big on charisma, and if it weren't for the fact that their family was searching for them, they would have been a perfect fit for the throne. As it was, they became the spymaster instead.

[@krngameender6820]

A character I thought of was to have a warlock noble, who would want to be magic and then be approached by a patron. That Patron would go on to make a deal with the Warlock that he must make a sacrifice, the Patron rules out stuff like status, wealth and family as they’re things that can be reagained so the Patron decides to take the warlocks face (and most of his skin with it) leaving him mostly a featureless shallow version of himself. So now he walks around cities wearing a mask and tries to help those in need with his magic. (It’s still a work in progress so not all aspects are fleshed out)

[@maxtaylor3341]

A wizard with the haunted background. He used to be a folk hero and had a full family! Spouse and kids and everything. Sadly He got visual agnosia which is inspired by 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat' (Really good book) so he confused all his spells for fireball so whenever he cast a spell, no one would know what it was because he doesn't even USE fireball. Anyway, he's haunted because his house BURNED DOWN with his family inside! So he's haunted by their memories and it hurts him whenever he has to cast something to help the crew because it gives him slight PTSD. He works hard to atone for his sins as an old man who also has memory problems. It's fun to play an old man voice and I feel like his past is serious enough but not too much that he can't learn to slowly enjoy the company he has with the group which slowly helps with his condition a lot. He gets REALLY happy when he can do something useful for the group because it shows him that he can still do something at such an old age! (And yes I am doing very well thank you!)

[@JackSpike16]

I have 2, but I like this one more: Nils Quane Freiden, second son of an Earl. He likes to help everyone, so he had the idea to get information of any issues from among the common folk as a Bard by the name of "Frei". He's more than willing to help out adventurers with smaller quests, such as clearing an old mine, taking care of some ruffians, etc., But if he hears about something big, like people disappearing at night, or loud noises coming from the sewers, he'd go to his Father about it. He knows he'll likely never take over as Earl until his later years, so he's helping everyone stay happy the best way he can. I came up with a plan in case his family were assassinated or something. Basically, he'd go home and try his best to find out who killed them. If/when he finds out, he'd go to the ends of the world to kill whoever had them assassinated. He'd do whatever it takes, no matter the cost. If I get the chance to play him and his family was assassinated, I'd do my best to multiclass as a warlock. As for the other one: Haven't gotten a name yet, but he'd basically be a Rouge Jester that tries to cause riots and rebellions wherever he goes. Why? Because he believes that these Kings and Queens are letting evil run amuk while they sit above it all. After all, his King was like that, so they all must be, right?

[@pigeonkitt]

5:45 reminds me of my human paladin/future sorcadin!! pact magic is outlawed in his home country due to it being like a traditional royal thing. only the king and queen can forge pacts but the whole population was blessed with magical blood by the fey long ago so sorcerers are common

[@kylemoss7941]

I wanna play an awakened mimic sorcerer pretending to be a warforged in order to learn more about the magic that made them become awakened. His main goal is to become as powerful as he can with magic, then begin collecting/breeding other mimics to become a full town.

[@monkibro]

By mechanics, she's simply a divination wizard, but in aesthetics, she's functionally a wuxia character. Her "Magic Missile" manifests more like a series of wind punches. Her "Booming Blade" is chi channeled through her staff, etc. I just wanted a Monk with Portent...but I'm thoroughly enjoying this work around and character concept far more than I thought, despite it not being an optimal build by any means.

[@malomoreau8089]

a scientist was studying a small magical species known for living in groups sharing the same consciousnesses. to know more about them he worked with a wizard so he could join the consciousnesses network. he now refer to him with "we" or as "the human" as part of the group. the biger our group is the stronger and smarter we get, but if we are alone we are pretty weak, excepte for the human, but he is average for his species. i forgot a lot, it's been more than a year, but i still want to play that, even if it may be complicated. i remember drawing and creating a complete description of how this species live, hunt, eat ect...

[@officersoulknight6321]

7:25 … So this is Fibonacci but a Wizard

[@astrellas5007]

I have a kalashtar astral self monk. His astral self is actually the nightmare spirit that makes him a kalashtar. His nightmare spirit is ACTUALLY just a magical manifestation of his grief and despair. due to the fact that he killed his brother over a family feud. He sought out a monastery and after a good long time spent self reflecting and changing his way of thought, he joined up with a gang of other adventurers from a small village nearby. Its a really cool way to literally play a character that fights by channeling his inner grief and torment. His mind is a total mess due to his kalashtar nature, so he is easily manipulated. Definitely one of my better concepts

[@seawanderer9746]

I actually got to play this character a little bit. He was a Goliath Barbarian who was deamon touched. His tribe protected a portal to the abyss which would occasionally pour out a few minor demons. His tribe had a coming of age rutual where the young boys would enter the portal and kill the strongest demon they could find. The stronger the demon the more power and respect they earned. Well on the day my character Navith was to perform this ritual a massive demon incursion happed whuch caused the tribe to be slaughter and in desperation he took up his fathers maul and attacked the stronged demon he could find. It was the demon prince himself. Although he failed to kill it he was still able to damage it but as a consequence he was cursed by the demon causing his body to have deep purple and green tattoo like makings all over his body. In game he was a Totem Barbarian/Fiend pact Warlock. Unfortunately he ended up dying in the most badass way possibe and the DM turned Navith into a Revanent. Game died off shortly after

[@parkerchernoff3262]

i've got a lot of character concepts just sitting around as i have a habit of making dnd characters for fun, but one of my favorites is probably my "weird little girl" 13-year-old tiefling warlock named pollyanna geist, or polly for short. her name is a play on 'poltergeist' as her patron is a powerful ghost that possesses her stuffed cat doll. the ghost is named damon, but she insists on calling him mr whiskers since that's the name of the doll he possesses. she comes from a noble family that's basically the addams family if it was Very Extended- she has werewolf family members, and an uncle who became a vampire when he was 19, and so looks 19 but he's actually in his late 40s at the moment. she's an only child, but has many cousins- she was raised by her grandparents because her parents were both adventurers who went missing when she was very young, and now with damon's aid she's searching for them. she doesn't have a campaign but when i find the right one for her, i'm so excited to play her eventually.

[@Xodiarc]

I dunno if it's my 'coolest', but a neat idea I had once was to have a tiefling adventure who was obsessed with collecting magical items. The idea being that he'd make himself a veritable dragon's hoard of the things, then retire while he was still alive to make a 'item rental shop' for all his magic toys to other adventurers who could probably use them better than he could. Even have a little enchantment on all of them in which if the holder perishes, they return to his hold so not as to get lost all over again.

[@aqualiion6161]

I've always wanted to play a multiclass hexblade warlock / echo knight fighter. His name is Kendall Evinton and he hails from a noble family where his entire family can summon echoes and when they do, the summons are their late ancestors. Another common trait is that when they dream they can sometimes relive the memories of their ancestors. At some point, Kendall makes a pact with a deity/celestial or fiend that has an influence over dreams and memory. Kendall is unaware of this pact however because shortly after it he awakes with complete amnesia- only aware that his name is Kendall (doesn't remember his last name), fighting comes naturally to him, and he can use an amount of magic and summon these shades. However, Kendall is unaware of the significance of these abilities as he believes they must be natural for him. Still- scared, alone, and in a place he doesn't recognize, Kendall needs to survive and does so on his own going from odd job to odd job until he finally meets with whatever adventuring party he's apart of. There's a catch to the deal he made though. Every time he marks a target with his hex and slays them, he inherits their memories and they are added to the occasional dreams. Kendall doesn't realize this is happening until he has a dream where he watches him kill himself (i.e, the final memory of this particular person who died at Kendall's hand). This would begin a plot as he now has to figure out who he is and what happened to him while also trying to sift through the memories he's seen as he's not sure which ones are his and which ones aren't (he isn't even aware that his ancestors memories are in that pool). It's a rather edgy character imo so I'd play him neutral good slowly turning into chaotic good as he believes himself to be a good person but isn't too sure if this was always the case because of the memories he often dreams of. The idea of him having his first hint- He walks into a tavern after completing a job that got nasty quick earlier in the week, and he sees someone and is convinced he's friends with them- even knows their name, but the person has no idea who Kendall is. I wonder what that would do to someone. What I like most about Kendall though is that I would know how to play him and his intentions but with him being this amnesiac I think it would be really cool attempting to solve the mystery of his past alongside him. But these are probably fever dreams as a forever DM hehe Edit: Some minor spelling mistakes I noticed too late.

[@flameofmage1099]

Syr Miðriksson. A Goliath Bard whose tribe is descended from Surtur. As a child he had always received visions and one day received a vision of Ragnarök. Everyone in the tribe knows of Ragnarök but only from stories and a few don't believe it will happen. The next night in his dream he is visited by Surtur, who tells him he can make his painful visions go away. Little does he know he is being led to free Fenrir and begin the Ragnarök. Unfortunately I would a DM who wants thus stuff in his setting already so it'll probably be awhile before I can play him.

[@bilboswaggins4783]

I’ve had a character and campaign that I’ve wanted to do for a while. Whole party is demigods, with one being sired by Jergal and gifted the Jathiman dagger. Most enemies throughout the campaign would have to be other demigods or lesser deities to make combat fair, but that plays into some sort of tournament of demigods with the winners being granted deity status. In the end the Jergal sired demigod flips and slays the entire pantheon of gods, with the Jathiman dagger, for some reason I haven’t thought up yet

[@deathjester5729]

One I'm setting up to run in case my current charecter. The idea is a warforged wizard who can see the magic weave sorta like a charecter that can look through the magnetic spectrum. He became a wizard and an adventurer out of sheer admiration and desire to see the beauty within the weave when high level spells are cast or when powerful artifacts are near

[@harryjennings8244]

I play as Torrin of clan Targuul, a dragonborn paladin of Moradin. When he was young his clan and village was wiped out by necromancers and their undead horde, Torrin however (with the help of his siblings) managed to escape. He ended up wondering the wilds alone until a Dwarvern cleric, and former hammer of moradin, found and adopted Torrin teaching and rasing him as a dwarf. This cleric is another player character named Ruik Fireforge and makes for an interesting dynamic in-game as Torrin sees him as a father and follow his word loyally whereas Ruik seed Torrin as a son and fiercely protects him

[@aduckwithayoutubechannel]

My bards instrument was broken and he later repaired it himself. I decided to take some levels in Wild Magic Sorcerer, which ended up making a really cool character. His magical lute, shattered and later repaired, served him as faithfully as it always had. However, it was never quite right again. Strings were looser or tighter than they should be, the odd rattling sound that could never be determined, and of course, the issues with magic. Every time I has a wild magic surge, it was flavored as a weird quirk or mistake of the wonky instrument.

[@WarChallenger]

I have a few characters lined up with specific jokes or puns behind them, which I don't want to write down just yet for fear a future player who watches these videos will recognize them. So, I'll write down one of the more discrete ones that's hard to guess in advance. Willow Crafterton. He's an artificer with a pension for cooking, and for metalwork. He learned both of those skills from a magic college, learning culinary expertise from the great Gorgon Ramsay, and steel patchwork from mythical Phil Smith't. Those pun characters aside, he also raised a family of a wife, two sons, and one daughter. However, his true goal in life is to discover immortality without lichdom. He wants to experiment in particular with the idea of wraiths possessing objects, and feels he can create a type of makeshift warforged that uses an existing, human soul to pilot it. In short, he's a sociopath. Truly lawful evil, he only really does what will benefit him. He has absolutely no regard for others' wellbeing, especially if they aren't going to benefit himself, or further along the research into mechanized immortality. He hasn't begun truly experimenting yet, but he has created a suit of armor for himself in case he runs into trouble along the way. The inside of the machine is metal plated, with some small areas of padding against himself. The outer layer is mostly cloth to absorb sharper impacts, and avoid swords piercing the metal. He can repair the suit at will using his prior magic, but only after a minute has passed since, well, it's mending. The only real downside is that the folding mechanism to store it away is not really foolproof. Moisture damage or heavy impacts may cause the ratcheting mechanism that holds it open to come loose, which may injure him if this happens while he's wearing it. Regardless, he does not seem to fear this happening, as he runs full sprint while wearing this in spite of the danger. What's more, he also doesn't have a regard to camouflage. How could you NOT see a giant gold bunny on the battlefield?

[@NikolaiMihailov1]

Ive got: A techpriest. During a dust plague his parents didnt want him to get ill or potentially risk starving due to the damaged crops so they passed him up to a magitech cult. His past was never hidden from him and now hes a devote follower of the Machine God. He was attacked by a ranger and almost died from his injuries but now he has to use a specially made voicebox to speak. He weirds people out with his obsession with knowledge but hes crafty and the party likes having a walking toolbox. A one eyed heavily inspired by TF2 demoman Magitech disposal expert. Hes an alcoholic from his PTSD from serving in some forgotten kingdoms war and his job was to dispose of magic traps and items. He has a very strong dislike of magic users citing them as irresponsible with their gifts. He lost his eye when a magic item stole it from him. He wants that back. An old character I had was an alchemist. A good aligned guy who wanted to help people. Well after completing a quest we all got items but we all failed to properly identify them. He got a hat thats completely changed who he is. Everything he sees himself doing is good but the reality is its warcrimes. The party tried taking the hat off him once but it made him catatonic and unresponsive. Now hes the BBEG in a friends campaign and as far as I know they haven't managed to find the mad hatter alchemist.

[@Petrovania]

A bard who casts spells using sock puppets and has no other art medium.

[@WordAlchemist5362]

A Tiefling Fighter Rune Knight with split personality disorder. One personality is Abigail: clever, shy, doesn't like violence if she can help it. The other personality is Abaddon: eccentric, friendly, loves violence and blood. They flip as a result of head trauma or specific gain/loss of HP.

[@TheCrazyLunatic8]

My character is a very very custom character. Lots of cool features that need a little bit of balancing (which, because I've never had the chance to use him, I've never gotten around to) My character is a cat. Yep. A cat. He was under the possession of a terrible owner from his birth, and he fled from this owner when he was about 7 years old. Ever since then he's been wandering the streets of the growing human civilization, watching as they destroyed themselves bit by bit, but never being strong enough to do much, as he was plagued by cowardice. He's actually the son of a magical being, whom he hopes to find one day. Special features: -He's learnt (from his owner) the find familiar spell, and can cast it on himself to change into another creature, with the same requisites as the spell; additionally, he wears a purple cloak with a special gemstone, and he can only cast the spell when the cloak is being born by him, provided that the gemstone is also embedded in the cloak. -He can speak like a normal human can. -He uses telekinesis at a small extent as a replacement for arms, which he does not have, unless he turns into a human. The telekinesis is simply aesthetic, and serves no more function than human arms would. -He can change in and out of human/magical being form about twice per day, provided that he's wearing the cloak. Actually, we did have one session with the cat, but we never got around to fully using all of his features, considering it was only the first session

[@officersoulknight6321]

I’m a fairly new player so I’m kind of unsure how liches work, but I have an idea for a character that could be used in a low level campaign while still being a f***ing lich. So, basically, there’s this couple that’s two extremely powerful wizards, who have a child. They help the kingdom prosper as the king’s main two spellcasters, but one battle, the father dies in battle and the mother is on their deathbed. Knowing they themselves would hate immortality due to having lost everyone they love besides the kid and knowing they would be unable to gain anything from lichdom since they’ve already done everything they wanted to and lived a fulfilling life, they use their last spells to help the kid achieve lichdom so they can become a unstoppable and famous adventurer like they have wanted to since a very young age. And thus, we have this 10 year old lich wizard who is the self doubting one of the friend group

[@anonymous-lj3hb]

A soul imbued into a scarecrow that carves random trinkets and helps town folks silently as they all think hes the kid napping scarecrow from the legands all he wants is human cotact and to join society

[@amphithererose2300]

I have 2 that sound good on paper. I got to play both, but I wasn’t able to rp them well enough to flesh out my ideas. Both campaigns weren’t character focused either :(. 1. A changeling wild magic sorcerer who spent their life using their shapechanging to swindle and steal. That was until they were struck by magical lightning, causing them to develop magic at the cost of losing control of their own form. They have to learn to live without their disguises and find their inner self. 2. A Reborn Wildfires Druid from the ancient past. He worked as a priest in training under the local Temple of Fire, worshipping the desert’s many firestorms. His life turned upside-down when one day he awoke to his city in ruins and only the skeletons of his friends left standing. He starts to wander, searching for answers and for anyone who knows what happened.